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With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses (https://www.idexcorp.com/our-businesses/business-segments/) around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.

Company

Located in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Banjo Corporation is a leading manufacturer of Liquid Handling Products that service Agriculture and Industrial Applications. Specializing in injected molded, glass-reinforced polypropylene products, Banjo prides itself on innovative design, skillful engineering, precise manufacturing, and finding the solution that works best for your liquid handling needs. Banjo Liquid Handling Products marketed and sold all over the world: Valves, Electric Valves, Manifold Systems, Dry-Disconnects, IBC/Tank Accessories, Cam Lever Couplings, Pipe Fittings, Line Strainers, and Pumps.

KZValve, located in Greenwood, Nebraska was acquired by IDEX in 2021, bringing innovative valve actuation solutions to the Agriculture portfolio. Founded in 1976, two brothers created a business founded on single product, Hydra-Halt. The economical, automated valve used in fertilizer application was the result of the owner experiencing an ammonia spill while side dressing his corn field. Over the next forty years, KZ Valve built a broad product portfolio of automated valves with safety and modernization being paramount.

Banjo Corporation and KZValve are a Unit of IDEX Corporation. IDEX (NYSE: IEX) is a company that has undoubtedly touched your life in some way. In fact, we make thousands of products that are mission critical components in everyday activities. If you or a family member is battling cancer or another life-threatening disease, your doctor may have tested your DNA in a quest to find the best targeted medicine for you. It’s likely your DNA test was run on equipment that contains components made by our IDEX Health & Science team (https://www.idexcorp.com/our-businesses/business-segments/health-science-technologies/) . You can enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables thanks in part to Banjo (https://www.idexcorp.com/business/banjo-corporation/) & KZ Valves, an IDEX company. Banjo and KZ Valves are used on the agriculture sprayers that apply fertilizer on crops. And if you were ever in a car accident, the Hurst Jaws of Life® (https://www.idexcorp.com/business/hurst-jaws-life/) /LUKAS® tool may have rescued you.

Founded in 1988 with three small, entrepreneurial manufacturing companies, generating a mere $209M in revenue, we are proud to say that we now call 50 diverse businesses around the world part of the IDEX family. With more than 8,800 employees and manufacturing operations in more than 20 countries, IDEX is a high-performing, global $3.2+ billion company committed to making trusted solutions that improve lives. For more information, visit www.idexcorp.com .

The Role:

The VP of North American Agriculture Sales and Marketing, reporting to the Agriculture Group President and a member of the Agriculture Leadership Team, will be responsible for leading a team of sales and marketing professionals that will drive the profitable growth strategies for both Banjo and KZValve brands, through partnerships with OEM’s and development of various channels. This encompasses robust customer and market development, a keen sense of distributions’ role, leveraging pricing strategies, and efficient use of digital marketing and data analysis to drive highly intimate and relevant customer experiences. Success will be measured through achieving financial and operational metrics, customer requirements, along with a highly profitable growth trajectory through mastery of 80/20 and leveraging of the IDEX Operating Model. It is expected that the leader creates a positive, collaborative, and inclusive culture with a priority on building and developing high performing teams. The leader will embody the IDEX core values of Trust, Team and Excellence.

This position reports into the President for Agriculture and can be located remotely in the USA (in relevant agriculture areas) or in the Crawfordsville, IN or Greenwood, NE locations.

The Responsibilities:

• Lead the NA Sales and Marketing Team to identify and execute profitable growth opportunities.

• Create intimate, relevant customer experiences with OEM’s and users through digital marketing, relationship management and channel development. Develop and deploy meaningful, consistent VOC and customer scorecards to focus and improve commercial performance.

• Understand, define and develop a multi-faceted, value added channel strategy with partnerships that are extensions of the Banjo/KZValve customer experience.

• Generate a well-defined, value-based, pricing strategy that drives continuous margin expansion while increasing customer usefulness.

• Provide impactful data analytics and market insights to business leadership to assist in strategic business development, lead generation and sales strategies.

• Enable sustainable growth using foundational, repeatable commercial process measured by KPI’s.

• Link digital marketing, data analytics and operational processes to maximize efficiencies.

• As a senior leader, cultivate a strong culture of customer obsession, always keeping customer central to our focus.

• Craft IDEX Agriculture Group’s strategic and annual operation plans through collaboration with Innovation, Strategic Marketing, Operation and Global Teams derived from a vigorous knowledge of markets, trends, competition and technology as it relates to our vision and capabilities.

• Act as a key contributor to Sales Operations, including SIOP process with demand forecasts from sales team and other incoming customer intelligence.

• As senior leader, operate as a highly engaged, steward of the business’ goals, actions and reputation.

With a proven servant leadership style, the VP of North American Agriculture Sales and Marketing is expected to attract, develop, motivate and lead a high performance team while furthering a collaborative culture and ensuring the core values of the company are upheld. The current NA Sales and Marketing team consists of OEM Account Managers, Territory-based Distribution Sales Managers, Marketing communications and a Channel Manager. Additionally, these groups are supported by applications engineers and technical support based both remotely and in the Crawfordsville office. The Vice President will identify and develop required competencies for success and will enable a commercial and growth mindset and actions on the team.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Sales and Marketing Management with strong experience in diverse channels

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience. MBA preferred.

• Experience in B2B sales. Experience in the Agriculture Industry strongly preferred.

• Strong knowledge of digitalization of marketing and sales operations and CRM system optimization

• Acute business and financial acumen

• Prior experience operating within a manufacturing company

• Results driven with high personal and team accountability

• Strong analytic skills leading to business and strategic insights

• Influential communication / negotiation skills

• Experience driving results through servant leadership and development of a highly-engaged team

• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)

• Travel up to 70%, primarily within USA

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws (Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled).

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Job Family: Marketing

Business Unit: Banjo